Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the … duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different …

vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … Arbeitslosigkeit dieser Gruppe untersucht. Die Analyse beruht auf der IAB{Beschäftigtenstichprobe 1975-2001, welche tagesgenaue … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Außerdem ist eine Verkürzung der Verweildauern in Arbeitslosigkeit nach der …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for … employment subsample 1975- 1997 is used for the analysis. It contains employment and unemployment trajectories of about 500 … length of unemployment duration. A large share of long term unemployment with only few exits to employment is observed in …

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … Arbeitslosigkeit der 54-56jährigen untersucht. Die Analyse beruht auf der IAB{Beschäftigtenstichprobe 1975-2001, welche tagesgenaue … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Au?erdem wird eine Verkürzung der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit nach der Reform …

We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two … proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by Fitzenberger/Wilke (2004). The first proxy comprises all periods of …

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …